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studio kaäla
Art as a form of Conservation
Our practice approaches design through a lens of conservation, using archival and research-based, nature-led storytelling.
Design, culture & living ecological archives
As ecological balance shifts and landscapes change, we aim to document the living world, preserving its memory through visual narratives before it is lost.
Archive de Kaäla
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Stories from home
Gal.Gal is a space for slow, attentive writing and illustrated storytelling.
Its objective is simple: to listen closely to mountains, memory, and the lives shaped by them.
Here, stories are gathered rather than produced, told through words and images alike. Gal.Gal seeks to preserve what is often overlooked, the ordinary, the enduring, and the deeply human.
This is work that resists haste.
A place to return to what feels honest, rooted, and alive.
Women’s Ritual Archives
The Jyoti Patta Archive is a living repository dedicated to documenting, preserving, and studying the ritual mural traditions of Uttarakhand. Rooted in Kumaoni women’s lived experience.
It uses their visual and spiritual knowledge, images, oral histories, and contextual records of Jyoti Patta paintings as they exist in homes, ceremonies, and everyday life. The project seeks to safeguard an art form that is ephemeral, community-held, and deeply tied to ecological and cultural memory.
It seeks to ensure that it remains accessible for research, learning, and future generations.
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